Worry about DD at uni who just called

[Raisingresiliantteens]

DD just started uni at Bristol. She just called but I only heard a noise and that was it. I am worried. Calling back but not answering

Ditto! I really feel for you @Raisingresiliantteens, I'm glad she was out enjoying herself. I was at Bristol myself, and I remember "Faffers' Week", as it was called then, was a non-stop round of activities. If mobile phones had been available then, my own mother would have been lighting mine up at all hours! As it was, we had to make do with a communal phone on the hall of residence corridor

Yep. We've surely all had that awful moment when you can't help thinking hang on that's odd.
So sad for their dc that some would apparently just shrug their shoulders and go to sleep and think ah whatever.

No it isn't.

They provide pastoral support in the sense of placating over anxious parents because it's cheaper and gives the uni better outcomes than putting up with parents driving up or otherwise disrupting things. But universities are constantly saying how pissed off they are with helicopter parents stopping students from gaining the skills and independence that university life used to provide.

In this sense pastoral support is only what you pay for in the same way you pay for security to stop idiots from causing disruption.

I’m very happy to hear this OP. I’d have felt the same 😟

Glad your DD is okay OP.

Not sure about tracking adult children though. I’m so glad this wasn’t available a few years ago when mine were at uni, I would have worried myself silly. At some point you have to “cut the cord” and let them live their life, for better or worse. They’ll make mistakes sometimes, but all part of growing up and becoming an adult. Parenthood - still difficult at times, even when they’re adults!